Schloss Thorn

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Schloss Thorn, Palzem

The Thorn Castle is a castle converted to the former castle within the same local part Thorn Castle in the local church Palzem in the district of Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate.

Location

Thorn Castle dominates on a cut of the Moselle and cross Weilersbach hill to access the Moselle valley and Saargau. It forms the south-west corner of the district Trier -Saar castle.

History

The name comes from the Latin Turris ( = tower). This was built as Mosel transition to protect a ford about 2000 years ago. The castle was built in the 13th century. The end of the 15th century decaying castle was rebuilt in 1536 by the new owner to two towers and part of the curtain wall. The current castle is the result of probably the remains of a rectangular closed and reinforced by corner towers medieval castle. Structural expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries as well as the mansion in 1800, forming an imposing assembly. 1800 took place with the construction of the manor house of the change to the lock system and the former fortifications were redesigned to garden terraces. A round tower was destroyed during the bombing of 1945, the second tower, a rectangular former residential tower, now used as a gate tower.

Thorn looked from the Middle Ages to various noble families as vassals, the lords of Rollingen ( Erbmarschälle to Luxembourg ), by Musiel. Bübingen and of the Today's owner is the family of Baron von Hobe -Gelting. Thorn is the oldest castle vineyard on the Mosel. Worth seeing is the only surviving Baumkelter Europe.